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Posted by Michael Gonzalez (Member # 593) on 09-12-2002, 05:24 PM:
So what do you call your carbonated beverges Soda or Pop?
Posted by Jennifer Osborne (Member # 1220) on 09-12-2002, 05:27 PM:
I believe it's refered to as "pop" in the midwest, but i think on the east coast they call it soda
Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 09-12-2002, 06:05 PM:
It is also called "Soda" here in America's only tropical island state, Hawaii.-Claude
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 09-12-2002, 06:11 PM:
In New York it's "Soda". Still like those eggcreams.
Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 09-12-2002, 06:24 PM:
In Montana, the terms appear to be interchangeable. Hear them both all the time. I hear the slang-ish "sode" (rhymes with road) occasionally too.
Posted by Mike Spencer (Member # 1364) on 09-12-2002, 06:42 PM:
In W.Va. it was POP and in Jersy it was SODA.. Having lived in both places.... I now live in South Carolina it also called soda in my area...
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-12-2002, 06:54 PM:
There is a story running on the AP wire about just this topic, complete with a map of the results.I've been in so many places, I just called it "a beverage" so at least I know why people look at me funny.
Posted by Steve Kraus (Member # 476) on 09-12-2002, 07:14 PM:
Faucet or tap? Bag or sack?
Posted by Darren Crimmins (Member # 1116) on 09-12-2002, 07:15 PM:
In the South it is usually referred to as "Soda". Sometimes I have heard people say "Coke" as a generic name for all the sodas. The term "Pop" is not used in the South. I believe that it is primarily Northern.
Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-12-2002, 07:24 PM:
What about soda-pop? I usually only hear soda when refering to fountain pop.
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-12-2002, 07:34 PM:
Most people around here (Oklahoma) refer to the drinks by their brand names. I have heard "soda", "pop" and "soda-pop" all used from time to time. I remember some radio commercial for some kind of beverage where some people with extreme-exaggerated southern accents were using "sod-ee pop". Can't remember what the hell that drink was, but I do remember someone going, "woooweeee! that shaure doo gotta bite!"
Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-12-2002, 07:42 PM:
Sounds like a Coca-Cola ad for Barq's Root Beer.
Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 09-12-2002, 07:47 PM:
"dark, cold, carbonated beverage" (From joke-a-thon. Sorry, Bob, couldn't resist)Down here we call it Soda. No one here says "pop"
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 09-12-2002, 07:53 PM:
I heard the news story, too. I've often wondered about the breakdown across regions.I'm from KY originally, and it was "pop" there - I grew up saying it. When I lived in Texas and Oklahoma, the terms seemed to be 50-50, as Bobby noted. In IL, Chicago specifically, it was "pop".
However, for the past 4 years, I've been in S. FL (little New York) and now MA. Since my wife is from PA, and because our kids are growing up in the East... it's "soda" in our family.
Mostly, though, I just say "something to drink". 
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Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 09-12-2002, 08:00 PM:
It's soda here in Manhattan and soda or coke in Los Angeles.
Only the bartender, knows for sure.
Posted by John T. Hendrickson, Jr (Member # 849) on 09-12-2002, 08:00 PM:
Gosh, Bob. I thought they called it "soder" in New York.
Posted by Oscar Neundorfer (Member # 458) on 09-12-2002, 08:44 PM:
In Atlanta, GA, it is always a coke (if you are from around here). Atlanta, after all, IS the home of Coca Cola. The term coke is used in many cases, even if you want a Pepsi or something else. Of course since the majority of people in Atlanta are from somewhere else now, it is likely to be any of the terms. (I am one of the few Atlanta natives left. We are a small minority anymore.) My wife is a yankee from New York, so the term soda gets used in my house a lot.
Posted by Brad Haven (Member # 954) on 09-12-2002, 08:58 PM:
In australia they are simply called soft drinks.
Posted by Kara J. McVay (Member # 1285) on 09-12-2002, 09:46 PM:
Here in Ohio it it Pop, but since I work at a theater with mostly east coast kids that go to the local university I call it Soda. But I did grow up saying pop. I have no clue why I switched from pop to soda years ago.Is it a creek or a crick?
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 09-12-2002, 09:49 PM:
In Detroit (in the 80s) it was pop.
Here in The Bahamas, it's soda...and Coke is often referred to as "Coke soda"
Posted by Joe Beres (Member # 678) on 09-12-2002, 09:54 PM:
For some reason 'pop' always annoys me. I grew up saying and still say 'soda', and once in a while, 'soda-pop'. Does anyone outside of Wisconsin call water fountains 'bubblers'?
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-12-2002, 10:17 PM:
You get a crick in your neck and ticks from the creek. Both bad. Really bad. FIRE BAD!!(Phil Hartmann Frankenstein reference. I don't know why I went there. But I think Frankenstein was call a Coke "soda" and "pop" is what he would do to a neck --or maybe just put a crick in it.)
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-13-2002, 12:08 AM:
Bubblers are those things that keep the fruit punch and lemonade stirred up and cold.
Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 09-13-2002, 01:29 AM:
IMHO, bublers don't do much of anything. They send lemonaid/fruitpunch up the middle and down the side of a clear plastic tank, and back again. Only usefull in marketing the product, nothing else.
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 4594) on 09-13-2002, 01:46 AM:
Around Boston, MA its mostly "soda" or "coke"...a lot of the employees at my theatre call it "coke" even though we sell "pepsi". It is a little misleading for those coke lovers like me! Everytime I hear them ask if the customers wants a "coke" I flip....I want my COKE--Coca Cola! :P
Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 09-13-2002, 02:14 AM:
Mike, ever seen lemonade in a bubler (JetSpray) that wasn't running for a few days? I sure wouldn't want to drink it. (Ok I have, it's bad! Iced Tea is even worse.)
Posted by Dick Vaughan (Member # 540) on 09-13-2002, 02:56 AM:
What's a soft drink? Vodka that's defrosted?
No Seriously 
Well in jolly ole England we call it pop. Well at least we oldies do.
Soda is fizzy water that you put ( or don't!) in you whisky(or whiskey) or brandy.
As for root beer its 
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 09-13-2002, 03:00 AM:
A bubbler is a drinking fountain.
Posted by Brooks M. Davies (Member # 1349) on 09-13-2002, 04:08 AM:
well in central texas (in some places) its called "coke" which includes any type of soft drink, if you go into east texas its called "soda water" and of course if your near waco tx, (30 min away from me) its DR. Pepper (The most DR. Pepper consumed anywhere in USA, is in central TX and Waco is the home of Dr. Pepper) if one says "pop" they are usually asked "what" and called a yankee, or something....like that, well later ya'll
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-13-2002, 04:14 AM:
Rachel, you and me both. I get very angry when I am at a restaurant and order a Coke and they bring me a Pepsi without saying anything about it...like I'm not going to notice! Now I can drink Pepsi and deal with it, but I have to know it's coming so I can brace myself. If I am doing the fast food thing, I tend to base my choice upon whether they will have Coke or Pepsi and avoid the Pepsi places.That being said I do have Pepsi in my counter electric unit, but it hardly ever gets used (only when there are visitors).
A manager I used to work with had an interesting theory. He said the younger the customer was, the sweeter they liked their drink. As such, he said "watch as all of the kids order Dr.Pepper". He was right, they ALL did. Then he pointed out that it's generally the younger teenager crowd that prefers Pepsi over Coke, and as the people get into their 20s, 30s and up they mostly want actual Coke. I don't know how much validity there is in that statement, as I've always been a die hard Coke fan since birth, but he has had me watching people for years off of that one conversation and most of the time his theory does indeed hold up!
By the way, I must agree the term "pop" is just stupid sounding. "Soft drink" or "beverage" or "soda" is ok, but "pop"?
Posted by Bob Maar (Member # 763) on 09-13-2002, 07:37 AM:
My grandchildren call me "Pop-Pop". You think that they think that I'm a coke or a pepsi? 
Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 09-13-2002, 07:50 AM:
Here in Victoria (Australia) we sometimes refer to various fizzy drinks as 'lemonade' even though this term is not strictly correct.Here in Australia also, flavoured mineral waters have become very popular.
cheers Peter
Posted by Brad Haven (Member # 954) on 09-13-2002, 10:19 AM:
I believe that the term 'soft drink' comes from the distinction between an alcoholic drink and non alcoholic drink, an alcoholic drink being a 'hard drink', 'soft drink' cover's all types of non alcoholic fizzy drinks, but can be used sometimes when requesting a juice or water.
Due to the high percentage of alcoholics in australia the distinction is nessasary!
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Posted by John Scott (Member # 520) on 09-13-2002, 08:37 PM:
When I first moved up to Minneapolis from Wisconsin I was at my theatre one day and asked one of my ushers to go and clean and polish the bubblers. The kid was sometimes a smart-alec so he looked at me and gave me a double take and just stood there. I again told him to go clean the bubblers, getting kind of annoyed that he wouldn't do it. He then asked me what was a bubbler. I again thought he was kidding, but he wasn't. I then had to explain to him the history of the "bubbler" drinking fountain.
(The Kohler company in Eastern Wisconsin came out in the early part of the century with a drinking fountain that "bubbled" like an artesian well at all times. It was called a "Bubbler" and the name stuck in Wisconsin.)
BTW, I call it soda (as does most of Eastern Wisconsin), but once you get to the west side of the state, or into Minnesota its referred to as pop. Makes life difficult when you have a waterfall that makes alot of noise in your lobby and people mumbling so that you don't know if they want a beverage or some corn.
Posted by German Marin (Member # 918) on 09-14-2002, 12:53 AM:
We call it coca cola, pepsi or "Refresco", it sound like "cold".
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-14-2002, 01:55 AM:
I used to say "pop" when I was a little bastard, but now I just say "carbonated beverage" or "something to drink" or just the actual name of the drink itself. I no longer say "soda" or "pop".
Posted by Barry Floyd (Member # 385) on 09-14-2002, 09:13 AM:
I've lived in or with 20 miles of Nashville, Tennessee my whole life. Here... it's called "Coke". I remember as a teenager working at the local Dairy Queen, customers would ask, "What types of Cokes do you sell?" We'd always reply "Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, 7up, Root Beer or Mountain Dew." That's how we referred to them and it was accepted as the norm. Nashville being a big tourist town... if we had a "northerner" come in and ask for a soda, they'd usually get upset as they were handed a blended icecream product that contained some type of flavoring and carbonated water! They'd say "What is this?" We'd say... You asked for a Soda!"
I once dated a girl from Toledo, Ohio who asked me one night if I'd like to have a "Pop"? I was thinking to myself.. "I can't believe she asked me that in front of her parents!!"? 
Then she said, "How about a Red Pop?" I was clueless. When she asked if I liked "Ho-Ho's"......I wasn't sure how to respond.
There IS a difference between the north and south!!
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Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 09-14-2002, 11:23 AM:
I usually order "Coke" because I actually want Coca-Cola and not that Pepsi stuff. The generic term around here would be "soda." My cousin from Indiana would call it "pop."I've never heard anyone actually use the word "bubbler" in reference to a water fountain, but have seen it in print.
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 4594) on 09-15-2002, 01:18 AM:
Are you serious Scott? Everyone around where I live calls a water fountain a bubbler...actually on my cleaning sheet I wrote down sanatize bubbler. When customers want the "water fountain" or "fountain", most ask where the "bubbler" is...or the "water bubbler". It's odd how two people can live so close yet still people in their area refer to the same thing so differently. The fountain is the soda rack....you CAN get water out of it if you want to.
Posted by Bobby Henderson (Member # 840) on 09-15-2002, 02:18 AM:
A popular conversation in Oklahoma goes as such:A waitress asks, "what do you want to drink?"
"I'll have a coke." I'll respond.
"We only have Pepsi," she replies.
"Can I have a Dr. Pepper," I inquire, which is how the situation usually resolves itself.
"Yeah, we have Dr. Pepper," the waitress responds.
If I want to be a total asshole, I'll yell out: "I WANT A FUCKING MR. PIBB, GODDAMMIT!!!!" And if they actually deliver, they are put among the list of the "righteous few restaurants who know how to serve a carbonated prune juice drink the right way."
MR. PIBB ROCKS, GODDAMMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeaah-ahhhh!
Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 09-15-2002, 06:38 PM:
Bobby might want to cut back on the caffeine a bit.
Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 09-15-2002, 08:13 PM:
I usually think of getting a soft drink as "getting a coke", as if "coke" is generic for all soft drinks. I hear people around here referring to "soda" and "soft drinks", but never "pop".
Posted by Mike Olpin (Member # 1115) on 09-15-2002, 11:23 PM:
Did anyone notice that the Coca-Cola Company changed then name of Mr. Bibb to Pibb Xtra? All of our BIBs (Bag-In-Boxes) of Mr Pibb are now labled this way. Does Anyone know if they changed the formula at all (like add more caffine or something)???
Posted by Sean McKinnon (Member # 612) on 09-15-2002, 11:36 PM:
Mr. PIBB Rocks! but it is very hard to find in this area!
Posted by Jim Ziegler (Member # 86) on 09-16-2002, 01:02 AM:
Pibb Xtra tastes more like Dr. Pepper... I loved Pibb, but hated Dr. Pepper, and, sionce they made the change, no I just drink Pepsi..
Posted by Paul Cassidy (Member # 951) on 09-16-2002, 01:43 AM:
SoftDrink here in NZ as well and we call candy or sweets "lollies" ------------------
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Posted by William Hooper (Member # 71) on 09-16-2002, 01:52 AM:
A generic carbonated soft drink is "or something".
The reference carbonated beverage is a Coke.
The usage is always:"You want a Coke or something?"
The answer is "Yes, I'd like a Coke" or "Yes, I think I'd like a Mountain Dew or Sprite".
Posted by Sam Hunter (Member # 1119) on 09-18-2002, 09:13 PM:
I thought "Soda Pop" was a "Yankee" term for coke.
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Posted by Leo Enticknap (Member # 534) on 09-19-2002, 02:50 AM:
When an American friend (from Nebraska) I was a student with came over to stay last summer, I actually gave her a glass of soda water when she asked for 'a soda', and she didn't take kindly to it. As Dick points out, it's carbonated water with a slightly salty aftertaste, usually used as a mixer with blended whiskies. I like it on its own, because it's about the only fizzy soft drink you can get (apart from poncy mineral water, which is a ripoff) that does not contain vast amounts of sugar, caffeine or quinine. She didn't!I'd always wondered why so many characters drink 'soda' in Hollywood films, but had never guessed that it was a generic term meaning 'carbonated soft drink'.